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Has US President Donald Trump actually brought an end to the war in Gaza?

After months of negotiations there’s been a breakthrough, with Hamas agreeing to release the remaining Israeli hostages as part of the first phase of a peace deal.

Today, international relations expert Rajan Menon on what we know so far, and whether this could be the end to hostilities.

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Rajan Menon, professor emeritus of international relations at the City College of New York

Editor’s note: At one point in this episode there is a reference to ‘prisoners held by Hamas’. Those people are accurately described as hostages elsewhere in the episode.